This week I have been collecting links to articles, news releases, and blog posts using the new curation functionality at ShareEdmonton. You can see my links here. Here are my weekly Edmonton notes:
Headlines
- Mayor Iveson blogged about the City’s relationship with the Province on Wednesday, saying that the Province treats cities “like children”. He says we’re long overdue for “a grown-up conversation” with the Province.
- No surprise here: Jim Prentice handily won the leadership race for Alberta’s PC Party. Plus, Dave takes a look at 20 years of Alberta by-elections.
- Calgary’s Joe Ceci and Edmonton’s Michael Phair collaborated to write a three-part series on municipal governance. Here’s part two, and here’s part three.
- The Katz Group is looking to buy a block of 103 Street in order to build an underground parking garage. The street would stay open to drivers most of the time, but could be closed for special events.
- The City and Leduc County met last week to discuss the proposed annexation. They agreed the meeting was “amicable” and will meet again at the end of October.
- Communities lose out when children are not present, says Alex Zabjek. Couldn’t agree more! Mixed use and a mix of people is the way to go.
- Here are the latest urbanism headlines from Spacing Edmonton!
- Classes for the next Planning Academy session start on September 23.
- Edmonton is now growing faster than Calgary. Which is only marginally interesting – both cities are growing incredibly quickly.
- Want to watch the Edmonton Oilers on TV this season? You’re going to need seven channels to do so.
- Seven University of Alberta faculty members were included in the 2014 Highly Cited Researchers list, compiled by Thomas Reuters.
- The City is recognizing the efforts of Capital City Clean Up volunteers. Nice work everyone!
- Should Edmonton cut back on less used bus routes and use those resources to create a network of high frequency routes instead? In a word, yes.
- Artist in residence Jennie Vegt has been capturing City Council and its work in a series of paintings on display at City Hall. A final exhibition will take place this winter.
- For more headlines, check out ShareEdmonton.
Jim Prentice wins the leadership of Alberta’s PC Party, photo by Dave
Upcoming Events
- The week kicks off with the latest Make Something Monday event at Startup Edmonton. This week’s theme is YEG Food.
- There’s still one opportunity to attend a Blatchford open house, on Tuesday evening at the Chateau Nova Hotel & Suites.
- On Wednesday, City Council will be discussing options for a Municipal Land Corporation, they’ll get an update on the City’s finances, and they’ll look at multi-year budgeting, among other things.
- The E-Town Festival is back, taking place on Thursday and Friday at the Shaw Conference Centre.
- Alberta Avenue comes alive on the weekend with the 2014 edition of the Kaleido Family Arts Festival!
- We hope to see you at Churchill Square on Friday night for our final What the Truck?! event of the year! You can see the menus here.
- The Eskimos host the Alouettes on Friday at Commonwealth Stadium.
- Hawkers Market moves to Latitude 53 on Saturday, with special guests The Nulls.
- The City is hosting another Big Bin Event this weekend, at the Southwest District Yard.
- For more upcoming events, check out ShareEdmonton.
Tour of Alberta 2014, photo by IQRemix
MasterMaq's Blog 
I find the high frequency transit idea when you examine the link, really bad. Southwood is a perfect example. Both current routes have about the same ridership. Eliminating them both for one route for higher frequency makes little difference in that area due to density and lifestyle. But to make it worse, you further alienate riders by wiping out half of Southwood from easy access to transit. In the winter time, that extra couple to 5 minutes could mean severe frostbite, especially for youth who are a large proportion of riders. Not even to mention this would add double the stress to an already overloaded DATS service.